S-Lab - Soo-Hwan Lee (NYU) / Addressees as applied arguments in syntax
S-Lab - Soo-Hwan Lee (NYU) / Addressees as applied arguments in syntax
Wednesday April 26, S-Lab has Soo-Hwan Lee from NYU, presenting "Addressees as applied arguments in syntax." Abstract below.
Extensive research has focused on how VoiceP (Kratzer 1996), ApplP (Pylkkänen 2008), and i* (Wood & Marantz 2017), an overarching term for Voice and Appl, establish argument structure inside the thematic domain (below TP). A question arises as to whether argument structure can be established outside the thematic domain (above TP). This work provides empirical evidence from Korean in arguing that an argument can be introduced by Voice/Appl (i*) in the left periphery. Specifically, it lends support to the claim that the discourse participant 'addressee' is represented in syntax (Hill 2007, Haegeman & Hill 2013, Miyagawa 2017, 2022, Portner et al. 2019 among others). Overall, this work draws parallels between the thematic domain and the speech act domain, which have been considered to be two separate domains. Time permitting, I will also present cross-linguistic evidence from a particular type of control construction in Meadow Mari (Burukina 2022) and allocutive marking in Galician (Haddican 2019) and Lebanese Arabic (Haddad 2014).